January fortnight toll
56 civilians were killed and 27 were disappeared in the first fortnight of January 2007
Thirteen civilians in Batticaloa, five civilians in Trincomalee , seventeen civilians in Mannar, eight civilians in Vavuniya and thirteen civilians in Jaffna were killed. A further 27 civilians were disappeared by the Sri Lankan operated forces in Tamil homeland.
 The trend of highest number of killing and disappearance of civilians in Jaffna continues in this fortnight as well. 22 civilians were disappeared including two high school students, Paranchothy Thanancheyan and Murukananthan Paramanathan. The January fortnight bar-graph shows clearly the humanitarian situation in the whole of Northeast, specifically in Jaffna. This bar-graph does not include the 15 civilians killed on 2nd January in Padahuthuai in Mannar and 5 civilians killed in shelling in Vaharai on 8th and 9th January. It is worth noting that, more than 40 civilians in Jaffna including ten under the age of 18 have sought protection with the human rights commission and they have been produced before the courts. Court decided to place them in prison for their own safety says the Jaffna branch of the human rights commission.
20 January 2007
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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